Where is the best area of the Malvern Hills to visit? How do I get there from Birmingham?

Question

I'm going to the Malvern Hills over the weekend but don't really know how to get to them or where the nicer areas are. Does anybody know of a particularly nice area?

Answer 1

I think the Malverns are a little more than two miles long :-)

Assuming you're travelling by train, you can get there either from New Street or Moor Street stations. The journey takes about 45 minutes. It's a pretty little station too.

The station isn't far from the centre of town and you can be at the top of the highest hill in the chain, Worcestshire Beacon, in about an hour or two - depending on your fitness.

The Tourist office will sell you a map of the whole chain of the hills at 1:25,000 scale (maybe less). It's a really useful way of navigating, however, the map doesn't include much in the way of detail of towns/villages skirting the hills.

It's a great place to go and you can even get free Malvern mineral water from a tap by the side of the road.

Answer 2

Go down the M5 . The Malvern Hills are signposted as a tourist attraction. There is a car park near the top of the hills above Great Malvern, from where you can walk to the very top for some stunning views.
Alternatively there is an hourly train service from New Street station to Great Malvern. At Great Malvern there is a bus service which passes close to the top of the hills.

Answer 3

I went to malvern on a school trip a few years ago - i remember heading down the M5 southbound from the junction at West Bromwich. That is about all i remember, so i suppose its a start! There wasnt much to do as i recall - then again, i was only 13! So thats as much as i can help.

Answer 4

They are a line of hills about two miles long, so you won't get lost. Just drive down the M5 untill you see the hills on your left.

if you see the sea, you have gone too far.

The view from the Herefordshire beacon is stunning, its the iron age hill fort at the southern end of the peaks.

Ledbury, is only a few miles away, and a nice little market town.

Bromyard is a tiny little town about 17 miles to the west in the direction of Hereford, and there is the cathederal city of Worcester and Herford. The formr is only a few miles away, the later about 25 miles west, but much more picturesque